i id Mr. W A F E RV Defcriptioti 



force of: the Mother's Imagination, look- 

 ing on the Moon at the time of the Con- 

 ception 5 but this I leave others to judge of. 

 He told me withal, that they were but 

 ffiort-liv'dL , 

 fainting Both thefe and the Copper-coloured In*, 

 dksand" dU?L life painting their Bodies, even of 

 Faces, the Sucking Children fcmetimes. They 

 make Figures of Birds, Beads', Men, Tree£, 

 6r the like, up and down in every part of 

 the Body, more efpecially the Face t But 

 the Figures are riot extraordinary like what 

 they , repreferit, and are of differing Di~ 

 menfions, as their Fancies lead them. 

 -Women The Women are the Painters, arid take a. 

 inters. g rea t delight in it. The Colours they like 

 and ufe moft are Red, Yellow and Blue, 

 very bright and lovely. They temper them 

 with feme kind of Oil, and keep them in 

 Calabafhes for ufe * and ordinarily lay them 

 on the Surface t of the Skin; with Pencils of 

 Wood, gnaw'd at the end to the foftnefs } 

 of a Bruth. ; So lay'd on they will laft feme 

 Weeks, and are tenew'd continually. This 

 1 way they painted me. 



But finer Figures , efpecially by their 

 greater Artifts, are imprinted deeper, after 

 this manner. They firft with the Brufli 

 and Colour make a rough Draft of the 

 Figure they defign ^ then they prick all 

 Bi over with a fliarp Thorn till the Blood 

 fa skin, gufties out 5 then they rub the place with 



fheir 



